A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Vertical Ghettos—Re-Urbanising the City: Density, Connectivity and Sustainability. Vertical Ghettos’ Case Study
This preliminary proposal is a field research enquiry to outline the impacts on the population in Chile, where housing costs are the primary driver of homelessness due to the high price of urban land, houses, and rents. In Chile, there is a housing deficit, social segregation, and social exclusion due to the high land and housing prices, unemployment, restricted access to mortgage credit and insufficient state benefits. Within this context, a new problem—affecting the middle-class segment- added more urgency to tackling the housing problem. The phenomenon of the VERTICAL GHETTOS, a residential neighbourhood created illegally between 2013 and 2018 in the municipality of Estación Central in Santiago, where it is suspected that up to 90 large tower blocks were erected unlawfully in a neighbourhood of low-altitude housing. There are 15 of these towers still empty, without permission for occupancy due to the illegality of construction and the disastrous level of construction failures: building up to 40 floors without the correct number of lifts creates a significant accumulation of users in the mornings and the evening, a substantial problem at street level with illegal parking; collapsed sewers as piping not able to take loads of thousands of people living in a single large six interlocking blocks. We conducted a discussion workshop during the XXII Architectural Biennale of Santiago in January 2023 during the event’s official programme. Based on this workshop, within the article, we are delineating a programme to re-urbanise the Vertical Ghettos using new legislation enacted recently and looking for forms to guide the process with inclusive policies.
Vertical Ghettos—Re-Urbanising the City: Density, Connectivity and Sustainability. Vertical Ghettos’ Case Study
This preliminary proposal is a field research enquiry to outline the impacts on the population in Chile, where housing costs are the primary driver of homelessness due to the high price of urban land, houses, and rents. In Chile, there is a housing deficit, social segregation, and social exclusion due to the high land and housing prices, unemployment, restricted access to mortgage credit and insufficient state benefits. Within this context, a new problem—affecting the middle-class segment- added more urgency to tackling the housing problem. The phenomenon of the VERTICAL GHETTOS, a residential neighbourhood created illegally between 2013 and 2018 in the municipality of Estación Central in Santiago, where it is suspected that up to 90 large tower blocks were erected unlawfully in a neighbourhood of low-altitude housing. There are 15 of these towers still empty, without permission for occupancy due to the illegality of construction and the disastrous level of construction failures: building up to 40 floors without the correct number of lifts creates a significant accumulation of users in the mornings and the evening, a substantial problem at street level with illegal parking; collapsed sewers as piping not able to take loads of thousands of people living in a single large six interlocking blocks. We conducted a discussion workshop during the XXII Architectural Biennale of Santiago in January 2023 during the event’s official programme. Based on this workshop, within the article, we are delineating a programme to re-urbanise the Vertical Ghettos using new legislation enacted recently and looking for forms to guide the process with inclusive policies.
Vertical Ghettos—Re-Urbanising the City: Density, Connectivity and Sustainability. Vertical Ghettos’ Case Study
Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
Alberti, Francesco (editor) / Bibri, Simon Elias (editor) / Piselli, Cristina (editor) / Gallo, Paola (editor) / Matamanda, Abraham R. (editor) / Rabiei, Hamid (editor) / Romano, Rosa (editor) / Ozcan Buckley, Ayse (editor) / Gonzalez, Carlos Patricio (author)
International Conference on Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development ; 2023 ; Florence, Italy
Urban and Transit Planning (Vol 1): Strategies, Innovations and Climate Management ; Chapter: 19 ; 227-236
2025-03-05
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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